Goods still need to flow in a pandemic. The UK still needs to trade. It's those flows that are possibly worst hit. Adding to problems that would've been present

Goods still need to flow in a pandemic. The UK still needs to trade. It's those flows that are possibly worst hit. Adding to problems that would've been present with just covid. Also attempts to find alternate markets can be hampered as business people can't travel easily to visit potential new markets for their products. (as pointed out elsewhere on thread) you could assume that having both at once allows the government to blame all economic issues on covid...